Walnut-Pear Sour Cream Cake

Ingredients

• 1 c broken walnuts
• 13 c packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 14 c butter
• 13 c flour
• 2 medium pears peeled and diced 2 c
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 34 c flour
• 34 tsp baking powder
• 12 tsp baking soda
• 14 tsp salt
• 12 c butter softened
• 1 c sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 8 oz carton sour cream

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Grease 9-inch spring-form pan Combine 1 cup nuts brown sugar and cinnamon
3. For topping cut 14 cup butter and 13 cup flour for coarse crumbs
4. Stir in 14 cup of nut mixture
5. Set both mixtures aside
6. Toss pears with lemon juice and set aside
7. Mix the flour baking powder soda and salt set aside
8. In large bowl beat the 12 cup butter sugar and vanilla
9. Add eggs one at a time
10. Add flour mixture and sour cream alternately to batter
11. Beat on low speed after each addition
12. Spread 23 mixture in prepared pan
13. Sprinkle with nut mix and layer pears on top
14. Spread with rest of batter and sprinkle topping
15. Bake 10 minutes and sprinkle with 12 cup more walnuts
16. Bake 50 minutes more